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Visitation:
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday, January 29, 2018, at
Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral Home
Service:
11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home
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Lila Pearl (Cox) Bruns went to be
with her husband Robert A. Bruns on January 26,
2018, at The Christian Village.
Lila was born on November 5, 1927, at the family
farmhouse in Waynesville, to John William and Effie
Mildred (Rich)Cox. She attended Prairie Creek Grade
School in Waynesville and then attended Hartsburg
High School where she graduated in 1945. Lila was a
prom attendant her junior year of high school.
She moved to Bloomington where she worked at State
Farm Insurance until her marriage to Bob on November
15, 1947, in Elizabethtown, KY. They moved to
Hartsburg, where Bob ran the gas station, and Lila
managed the motel and worked the telephone
switchboard that were all located close together
right along old route 121.
Lila had two sons, Roger (Kathy - caregiver for
Lila) of Lincoln and
Steve (Peggy) of Nevada, IA. Lila had six grandsons
and one granddaughter: Patrick (Bonnie), Aaron
(Stacey), Amanda Ahner (Andy), Cory (Sasha), Matthew
(Michelle), Richard (Jennifer), and Neil.
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She also had twelve great-grandchildren who were the highlight of
her life: Brenley, Ashlan and Bentley, Dominic, Victoria, and Amiriah, Adyson
and Alex, Mykayla and Mason, Ryerson, and Emily, and one great-grandson Elliot
due in April.
Lila retired from the Illinois Department of
Registration and Education giving state board exams from 1963-1987.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a brother John R.
(Bud) Cox, a sister Janette Evans, and two great-grandchildren,
infants Frankie and Emma.
Services for Lila will be at 11:00 a.m. Monday, January 29, 2018, at
Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral Home with visitation one hour prior
to the services. Burial will follow in Hartsburg Union Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to The Christian Village Congregate
Building where she resided for several years and will be accepted at
the funeral home.
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